DONEGAL QUARTER SESSIONS
The following persons were convicted at LIFFORD SESSIONS, and awarded the punishments annexed:
SARAH McDAID |
Assault and rescue to be imprisoned for six months |
SARAH DOHERTY |
For like offence, to be imprisoned three weeks |
FRANCIS McCAY |
For stealing yarn, to be imprisoned six months |
JOHN HART & MARY HART |
Obtaining goods under false pretences, the former to be imprisoned for two months, and the latter one month |
DANIEL SWEENEY |
For a severe assault, to be imprisoned for nine months |
CHARLES KEARNEY & MICHAEL KEARNEY & JOHN KEARNEY |
Assault and rescue, to be imprisoned one week |
WILLIAM JACKSON, Sen. & WILLIAM JACKSON, Jun. & REBECCA JACKSON & JANE STEEL |
Who lived in the neighbourhood of Carrigans, and have committed depredations in that vicinity for many years, were sentenced by the Assistant-Barrister, at the above Sessions, to seven years transportation each. This gang, which had been a terror to the neighbourhood, thus have met a deserved punishment, owing much to the exertion of ROBERT McCLINTOCK, of Dunmore, Esq., in bringing their many delinquencies to light, through the information obtained by him from a former accomplice |